MSI Z270 Tomahawk / Tomahawk Arctic Review

Written by Antony Leather

February 16, 2017 | 11:40

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MSI Z270 Tomahawk / Tomahawk Arctic Review MSI Z270 Tomahawk / Tomahawk Arctic Review - M.2 and SATA 6Gbps Performance

M.2 and SATA 6Gbps Performance

Website: CrystalDiskMark

We test the SATA performance with a Crucial MX100 512GB, which can practically saturate the bandwidth of SATA 6Gbps ports.

For the M.2 port, we use Samsung's SSD 960 Evo 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD, which has a claimed throughput of 3,200MB/sec read and 1,800MB/sec write.

M.2 Performance

CrystalDiskMark (Seq Q32T1)

  • MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
  • Asus Maximus IX Hero
  • MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium
  • Asus ROG Strix Z270G Gaming
  • MSI Z270 Tomahawk
  • Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming 7
  • Asus Maximus IX Formula
  • MSI Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon AC
  • Gigabyte Z270-Gaming K3
  • Asus ROG Strix Z270F Gaming
    • 3397
    • 1799
    • 3396
    • 1792
    • 3383
    • 1798
    • 3385
    • 1769
    • 3346
    • 1754
    • 3344
    • 1749
    • 3341
    • 1803
    • 3336
    • 1757
    • 3307
    • 1778
    • 3121
    • 1735
0
500
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3500
MB/sec (higher is better)
  • Read
  • Write

SATA 6Gbps

CrystalDiskMark (Seq Q32T1)

  • Gigabyte Z270-Gaming K3
  • MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
  • Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming 7
  • Asus Maximus IX Formula
  • Asus ROG Strix Z270G Gaming
  • MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium
  • MSI Z270 Tomahawk
  • MSI Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon AC
  • Asus Maximus IX Hero
  • Asus ROG Strix Z270F Gaming
  • MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium (ASMedia)
    • 563
    • 534
    • 563
    • 533
    • 563
    • 532
    • 563
    • 531
    • 563
    • 531
    • 563
    • 531
    • 563
    • 530
    • 563
    • 530
    • 563
    • 530
    • 563
    • 530
    • 403
    • 420
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200
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500
600
MB/sec (higher is better)
  • Read
  • Write

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